Best 209 quotes in «opera quotes» category

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?

I am a living soap opera.

For more than 13,000 days on the run, my life was a soap opera.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera. There is never going to be a next [tabloid] installment about my life because my own stuff is my own stuff.

I can go from one extreme to another, from playing at the Sydney Opera House on the Songbook tour to shows with Soundgarden at Voodoo Fest, all in a week.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

I'd love to come to Australia. I'd love to walk about the Sydney Opera House.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

I could hire every producer in Hollywood - 2,000 producers, let's say - and they couldn't come up with all the soap operas, in season and out of season, that NFL programming gives television.

I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got to be absolutely like a horse.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day. My face got burned off when she sang the aria 'Donde Lieta Usci.' The woman was technically sobbing and singing opera at the same time. I don't know how you do that.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I had a year at 3 when I wanted to be a conductor in the opera.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.

I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

I maintain that Western popular culture at its best is worthy of respect and should be cherished as much as the operas of Wagner.

I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined Id be in a soap opera.

I'm Opera Singer. I can sing Brecht, Weil.